Ingredients

Main ingredient 2 bitter gourd

Supplementary ingredients 1 bowl of dried plums

Seasoning soy sauce moderate amount of icing sugar moderate amount of cooking wine moderate amount

Steamed bitter gourd with prunes

1. Bitter gourd is washed, sliced

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2. heart clean

3. Yard in the plate

4. dried plum cabbage washed. Add rock sugar

5. Add soy sauce and cooking wine, put cold water on the pot, steam for 5-10 minutes after the water boils,

Nutritional effects

Bitter melon smells bitter, non-toxic, cold in nature, into the heart, liver, spleen, lung meridian. It has the effect of clearing heat, clearing the eyes and detoxifying the toxin, lowering blood pressure and sugar, diuretic and cooling the blood, relieving labor and clearing the heart, benefiting the qi and strengthening the yang, and is the main treatment for heatstroke, summer fever and thirst, summer boils, prickly heat, redness and swelling of the eyes and pain, carbuncles and swollen toxins, burns and scalded wounds, and oliguria, and other diseases.

Bitter melon is rich in vitamin C, each hundred grams of bitter melon contains 56 mg of vitamin C. Bitter melon is rich in bitter glycosides and bitter gourd, bitter gourd is known as the "fat killer" can make the pinch of fat and polysaccharides to reduce. The melon contains insulin-like substances - polypeptide - P

Bitter melon also contains a proteolipid-like substances, with the ability to stimulate and enhance the immune cells in the body of the animal to devour cancer cells, which can be alkaloids with quinine in the body to play an anticancer role. However, the bitter melon cold spleen and stomach cold people should not eat.

According to animal experiments, pregnant rats infused with bitter melon pulp juice caused uterine bleeding, and died in a few hours, so pregnant women should not eat bitter melon. Bitter food should not be excessive. Excessive easy to cause nausea, vomiting and so on. Bitter melon is cold in nature, easy to hurt the spleen and stomach, so people with weak spleen and stomach should eat less bitter melon. In addition, bitter melon contains quinine, will stimulate uterine contraction, causing abortion, pregnant women should also be cautious of eating bitter melon.